skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that how mistakes are made is crucial.

If it's a forced binary choice then sure LLMs can replace humans.

But often there are many shades of grey e.g. a human may say I don't know and refer to someone else or do some research. Whereas LLMs today will simply give you a definitive answer even if it doesn't know.
the non-profit will hire a leadership team and staff to pursue charitable initiatives in sectors such as health care, education, and science

Whether this is good depends enormously on what these initiatives end up being.
Jokes aside, the recent MAGA talk of buying Greenland and taking over the Panama Canal and annexing Canada is an example of the same kind of vindictive nationalist mindset that rose in Russia after 2000.

Nobody in Russia cared about Ukraine in the late 1990s. They were the harmless neighbors who talk a bit funny, just like Americans think of Canada. Invading their country wasn’t on anyone’s agenda.

Putin built it up gradually over decades. Ukrainians are actually Russians, it’s not a real country, they’re colluding with foreigners and ruled by fascists, etc.

Americans should be careful with this talk. It always starts as a jokey provocation.
Arxiv has about 2.6M articles, assuming about 10 pages per article, that's 26M pages. According to OpenAI, their cheapest embedding model (text-embedding-3-small) costs a dollar for 62.5K pages. So the price for calculating embedding for the whole Arxiv is about $416.

I think doing it locally with an open source model would be a lot cheaper as well. Especially because they wouldn't have to keep using OpenAI's API for each new query.

Edit: I overlooked the about page (https://searchthearxiv.com/about), seems like they *are* using OpenAI's API, but they only have 300K papers indexed, use an older embedding model, and only calculate embeddings on the abstract. So this should be pretty cheap.
At the end of the day, the buildings in a deadish mall or shopping center aren't worth much. Maybe the land is worth something but, in that case, why not start fresh with a purpose-built development, either housing or a mix of housing and retail.
Maybe not entirely seriously, but there is a direct causative path initiated by the United States that you can follow which lead to this result.

Iran shot down this airliner after mistaking it for a cruise missile launched by the US, which was arguably a credible fear given the events of days prior. If the US didn't assassinate Qasem Soleimani (with a drone, near an airport), Iran wouldn't have made this terrible error, as they would not have made a retaliatory strike.

Additionally, you can go even further back and argue that if the US didn't withdraw from the nuclear deal struck in 2015, none of these events would have taken place.
self prompting via chain of thought and tree of thought can be used in combination with updating memory containing knowledge graphs combined with cognitive architectures like SOAR and continuous external new information and sensory data … with LLM at the heart of that system and it will exactly be a “thinking machine”. The problem is currently it’s very expensive to be continuously running inference full time and all the engineering around memory storage, like RAG patterns, and the cognitive architecture design is all a work in progress. It’s coming soon though.
Looked at abstract - didn't see anything mentioned about heaviest creatine users being the gym goers, and gym by itself has mild antidepressant properties.
If you expect the AI to do independent work, yes, it is a dead end.

These LLM AIs need to be treated and handled as what they are: idiot savants with vast and unreliable intelligence.

What does any advanced organization do when they hire a new PhD, let them loose in the company or pair them with experienced staff? When paired with experienced staff, they use the new person for their knowledge but do not let them change things on their own until much later, when confidence is established and the new staffer has been exposed to how things work "around here".

The big difference with LLM AIs is they never graduate to an experienced staffer, they are always the idiot savant that is really dang smart but also clueless and needs to be observed. That means the path forward with this current state of LLM AIs is to pair them with people, personalized to their needs, and treat them as very smart idiot savants great for strategy and problem solving discussion, where the human users are driving the situation, using the LLM AIs like a smart assistant that requires validation - just like a real new hire.

There is an interactive state that can be achieved with these LLM AIs, like being in a conversation with experts, where they advise, they augment and amplify individual persons. A group of individuals adept with use of such an idiot savant enhanced environment would be incredibly capable. They'd be a force unseen in human civilization before today.
They can borrow and repay from the US' future revenues under Danish management :-)
Likely the same strategic interests that make it interesting for American imperialism.
What I really want are automated emails interspersed during the workday with my overdue Anki cards. It should be one click straight from the email to answer the quiz card, and appropriately rescheduled to my inbox in case of a memory miss. Spaced repetition quizzing is essential to memorizing anything, and Anki is really the most popular app in the world for that purpose.

I already spend all my time in the inbox and find it hard to ignore an email. Inbox zero habits would kick in and ensure that I do at least some memorization every day. A single Anki card in my inbox is far less daunting than the entire deck staring at me when I open the app.

Unfortunately Anki doesn't have a proper API and isn't easy to reverse engineer. I tried to build something using a scraper that logs in to the Anki web app, but it turned out to be very janky, and couldn't identify overdue cards. Somebody with better desktop app/python skills could probably do it locally, but I gave up.
Why some people can get away with only a little sleep every night
You're right, a peer to peer solution would work. A Bittorrent can be online indefinitely. They are a bit hard to find, though, and would have to rely on a search website for discovery. Regarding renewing the domain and resolving any payment issues, that's exactly what I was asking about with my question. There must be some standard solution.
Given that Denmark gave Ukraine F-16s and didn't bat an eyelash, I'd be all for it. I would be pretty happy if they hand out 2-3 fully loaded B-2's and be like "hey guys, go nuts with them".
While these folks waste breath debating whether AI is useful, I’m going to be over here…using it.

I use AI 100 times a day as a coder and 10,000 times a day in scripts. It’s enabled two specific applications I’ve built which wouldn’t be possible at single-person scale.

There’s something about the psychology of some subset of the population that insists something isn’t working when it isn’t _quite_ working. They did this with Wikipedia. It was evident that Wikipedia was 99% great for years before this social contingent was ready to accept it.
Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/world/europe/finland-esto...
>>>It's crazy how allergic these agencies are to open-source.

It’s about job protectionism on the greater scale and being the subject matter expert who leverages his code base for promotions on the individual scale. generally agencies do not view each other as working for the same team. It can be very competitive when lobbying for resources from congress for your agency.

I work in gov and speaking from first hand knowledge. The culture is toxic. It’s broken and I can’t wait to see what changes Elon and trumps team propose.
Russia had plenty of it's own problems in late 90s. But Russia has a loooooong history of issues with what is modern Ukraine.
None of these were binary decisions, but classifying one of around 10-20 conditions or rating cases on a 1-5 scale.

In all cases the models trained on a lot of this feedback were more consistent and accurate than individual expert annotators.
Point of order: A cruise missile isn't a high-speed missile. It's (almost?) always a big, slow, lumbering bastard, as far as missiles go.
Colossus: the Forbin Project (1970) - about AI systems going rogue
YouTuber Ryan McBeth has a pretty good analysis of available evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKiJwuY79Q0

I tend to agree with his conclusion that it's unlikely that the Russians attempted to force the jet to crash in the Caspian Sea to cover up the event. Not because Putin's government has any moral qualms, but because they lack the level of organizational competence it would take to come up with a plan like this and carry it out on short notice.

The two nearest airports in the direction away from Russia's war of aggression are the flight's origin at Baku, and Aktau. Baku is closer, but it's on the other side of a mountain range. Aktau is slightly further, on the other side of the Caspian Sea. A water landing is at least possible. Choosing to fly a damaged aircraft the slightly longer route over a lake rather than the shorter route over a mountain range is an eminently sensible decision.
This is a very disingenuous article, but a good lesson in how propaganda works: find the craziest, most extreme partisans, paint them as the opposition, and ignore the stronger arguments. Obviously, nobody wants to be associated with "far right" racists, so you're inclined to sympathize with the "right" side.

The article strongly implies that H-1B is is necessary because some startup founders were immigrants, and that it's crucial to acquire top tier tech talent. But H-1N is not actually for either of those things. It's used to acquire average or even below-average talent; to this day, Cognizant, Tata and Infosys are in the top ten H-1B sponsors. [3] There are examples of H-1B sponsorship for entry-level accountants.

It is obvious that the "purpose" of H1-B as it is actually used is to increase the supply of labor, help slow/stop the rise in labor costs, and to find employees much more willing to say "yes" to unreasonable demands due to cultural differences and visa demands. Nobody can blame the people getting the visas to improve their lot in life, but it is destructive for the US labor market, for the future of the US labor market (why go into the field?), and exploitative on the part of the USG and mostly large corporations. There is no reason for it to continue existing. We have separate visas for extraordinary talent. This is especially the case in a market where we're seeing mass layoffs.

Again and again H1-Bs have been used to replace US employees that already exist. [1] There's also multiple documented instances of actual employer discrimination. Cognizant for example, was found liable for intentional discrimination. [2] This is a broken system that needs to go away. Facebook settled a less egregious suit. [4] So did Apple. [5] Does anyone really think the practices at these companies actually changed afterward?

There's nothing "far right" about supporting labor rights. H1-B exists to lower wages and help employers pressure employees to work more than 40 hours a week for no compensation. Dump it.

There are also tons of hiring and recruiting problems companies need to fix. I myself, despite a great resume and perf reviews, completed over a hundred applications and got zero interviews. (Throughout my career, every interview I ever have gotten got to the offer stage.) There's no way this should be possible if these companies are really that desperate.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/us/lawsuit-claims-disney-...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-cognizant-h1b-visas-...

[3] https://www.myvisajobs.com/reports/h1b/

[4] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58975138#:~:text=Faceboo....

[5] https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-agrees-25-million-s...
>It’s so weird to observe how Alphabet doesn’t seem to even try to keep its parts separated.

"Your Honour, it's simply impossible to break up our company into separate entities. Everything is just too entangled together! Can we get a fine instead?"
It's a subscription model.

Saudis already bought US during the last administration.

Trump administration is going to have 13 billionaires, plus there are several billionaires in the shadows. If Denmark or EU would drop to the level of making deals with them directly and paying for their companies for US policy decision, they could do that.
Denmark can buy my citizenship if they would like. I like beer and football, I'm sure I can be Danish.
Now do the same with BioRxiv and you'd be a hero
Ambiguous title for HN :) I expected this to be an article about mobile device roaming.
It might provide more security but no, more security isn't the only metric when it comes to user facing stuff like this. If it was some implementation detail in a b2b service sure. But there are a lot more variables to take into account than just "how secure it is". As a trivial example, being able to recover an account is insecure by definition, yet is almost always necessary for any user created accounts.
You are thinking about "Virtual Machines" in a more philosophical/abstract sense. Here the definition is in a much more narrower and conventional sense. Surprisingly i can't find too many books on this subject. The Iain Craig book looks pretty interesting since it seems to link language to the VM, so maybe one can learn both language design and a VM to run it on.

Other than the above i can only think of studying "QEMU Internals" for more knowledge - https://airbus-seclab.github.io/qemu_blog/
>>>Your start up will never experience this and the mega corp

You writing this makes me believes you don’t work around or with the IC and speaking out of your lane.
POSIX does define "the amount of time (in seconds and nanoseconds) since the Epoch", for the output of clock_gettime() with CLOCK_REALTIME [0]. That "amount of time" must be stopped or smeared or go backward in some way when it reaches a leap second. This isn't the 80s, we have functions that interact with Unix time at sub-second precision.

[0] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/c...
"We are turning our non profit into a for profit because we want to make money" isn't legal.

To make this transition in a way that maximizes how much money they can make while minimizing what they lose to lawsuits they need to explain what they're doing in a positive way.
Every piece of technology is a "dead end" until something better replaces it. That doesn't mean it can't be useful or revolutionary.
> In additional other news, Microsoft and OpenAI have now reportedly agreed on a joint definition of relationship-ending AGI as "whatever makes $100B". Not kidding.

OpenAI did that all by themselves before most people had heard of them. The 100x thing was 2019: https://openai.com/index/openai-lp/

Here's the broadly sarcastic reaction on this very site at the time of the announcement, I'm particularly noticing all the people who absolutely did not believe that the 100x cap on return on investments was a meaningful limit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19359928

As I understand it, Microsoft invested about a billion in 2019 and 13-14 billion more recently, so if the 100x applied to the first, the 100 billion limit would hit around now, while the latter would be a ~1.3 trillion USD cap assuming the rules hadn't been changed for the next round.
Congratulations!

I was hoping 1.0 would mean CMD+F search would work, but looks like that was pushed back to a later release unfortunately.

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189#issuecomme...
But please accept that you are in a small subset of people that it is very useful to. Every time I hear someone championing AI, it is a coder. AI is basically useless to me, it is just a convoluted expensive google search.
I saw a similar small shell in C as a tutorial but it was from a book made in the 1980s on unix programming. Been wondering what that book was ever since because it was just something sitting around at a job that I didn't get to read all the way through, but it really made things click finally
This is one of the fundamental divides in politics that causes endless friction.

Are people responsible for their actions or is the government responsible for people's actions?
> But a secure password — i.e., a random value with 128 bits of entropy (such as a random 28-letter string) known only to the two parties to an authentication — is not rubbish.

No, they're still rubbish. Even if you make them 256 bit, passwords are bearer tokens which are reused across multiple authentications, which makes them replayable (if intercepted on the client, in transit, or server-side), phishable, social engineerable etc.

> There is the very minimum amount of protocol necessary: one party asks for it; the other party provides it.

And that's unfortunately too little protocol to be secure for repeated authentications.

> [...] principally due to no longer being a shared secret [...]

No, that's not the most important part of WebAuthN. You could get most of the benefits, i.e. phishing and social engineering resistance, from running it as a symmetric encryption protocol as well. Asymmetric keys "only" make server-side storage less sensitive (in the same way that hashing does for regular passwords).

> The end user can pick his own software to manage his passwords, or none at all (a piece of paper in a wallet is remarkably secure) and the relying party to has no ability to approve or disapprove.

The same is true for WebAuthN! (The only counterpoint here is attestation, but that is no longer a thing ever since Apple and Google introduced cloud synchronization for their credentials.) The difference is that you now need at least some software, because the calculations are too difficult to do on pen and paper.

> I am concerned by how it reduces users to mere consumers, digital serfs to their technological overlords.

Then... just don't do that! There are several open source implementations FIDO for you to choose from at this point.
> “We once again need to raise more capital than we’d imagined. Investors want to back us but, at this scale of capital, need conventional equity and less structural bespokeness.”

Translation: They’re ditching the complex “capped-profit” approach so they can raise billions more and still talk about “benefiting humanity.” The nonprofit side remains as PR cover, but the real play is becoming a for-profit PBC that investors recognize. Essentially: “We started out philanthropic, but to fund monstrous GPU clusters and beat rivals, we need standard venture cash. Don’t worry, we’ll keep trumpeting our do-gooder angle so nobody panics about our profit motives.”

Literally a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Sam, you can’t serve two masters.
> the mission of ensuring artificial general intelligence (AGI)1 benefits all of humanity

Why should we trust openAI for this more than e.g. Google or FB
Fascinating. Bjorn appears to have an amazing, polymathic knowledge of OS internals. I wish I had his work ethic!
>If you want to say that the USN is struggling to keep up with rapid changes in warfare I think you'd be correct.

That's certainly part of it, though I will also say the same for the US military overall.

>They've successfully shot down hundreds of Houthi drones and missiles with 100% success.

The problem is wars aren't won with politeness and pleasantries, they are won by whoever has the guts to destroy and murder first. The US Navy (and US military overall) aren't fighting to kill, so they might win battles (claim victory over drones and missiles) but they won't win the war. If we aren't going in to win the war we should not start or join any in the first place.

The friendly fire incident is really a coup de grace after the aforementioned self-admissions that the Navy considers the pressure they are under as bad as WW2 if not worse. I am appalled as a US taxpayer at their underperformance and subsequent unacceptable failure, regardless whether that is because they can't (no resources) or won't (rules of engagement and politics prohibit them).
> If he gave 1/3 of the initial funding, he helped a lot

He didnt just want to help, he wanted to control the company by being the CEO.
>This is on us. We have the responsibility to look at the advertising and make a choice.

It's not on "us" -- many people have long argued against the current state of legal bribery and corruption in the US, both advocating against and voting against this outcome.

It's very much on the owners and workers of media channels, traditional (television, newspaper) and modern (adtech).
We all know what's an answer when there is a question mark in the title.
Yes, expecting your car to go at the speed of sound is as misplaced as expecting words to be accurate. Self-stab?
Custom Github action written in Ruby. Checks if version is upgraded when updating the repository. Prevents creating a new release with an outdated version in the code somewhere.
Legal punishment is a great incentive to try to do your best job. You can reliably trust someone to act in one’s best interest.
I’m guessing these are also specially trained image classifiers and not LLMs, so people’s intuitions about how LLMs work/fail may not apply.
The problem with any loser-pays or adjacent system is that you inherently favor anyone with deep pockets even more than the system does today.
Just donate to one of the many politically active churches.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/30/johnson-amendment-el...
At the time, the two most popular ways for getting lucid in a dream was

1. Doing a reality check habitually in real life. Eventually you'll start doing it in dreams and have it fail. This _usually_ kicks you into lucid territory

2. Estimating when you're going to be in a REM state and setting a timer to wake yourself up. Then, after gaining consciousness fully, trying to make your body go to sleep while your mind is awake

Can you spot why I stopped doing it after a period of time? It end up feeling like a lot of work every day just for a chance (a low one in my and most people's cases) of having a lucid dream. Sleeping was no longer a passive, let's-relax type of activity. I just wanted to reclaim that period of time in a way.

I think my biggest takeaway from my lucid dreams was just the feeling of being in one. It's hard to describe, but the rush that comes along with the realization you can do anything you want is quite exhilarating.
Thanks for the excellent article. It's hard to find these step by step architecture evolution retrospectives. A great reference for other startups going though a similar journey!
Every US election is Christmas for months for the advertising industry. All those political dollars raised? 95% given to media channels to air political ads. The US elections are nothing about the people, and everything about pouring as much money as they can shake from the citizens into the media machine. And we don't even want the ads, don't need them, it's all a giant farce.
> However, Mr. Musk is continually called out by OpenAI in the public and OpenAI has quite the megaphone.

From what I see, this is mainly due to Musk complaining loudly in public.

And unlike the caving instructor that Musk libelled, OpenAI has the means to fight back as an equal.

That said, I don't see anything in this post that I'd describe as Musk "being called out".
Airliners aren't slow by cruise missiles standards: supersonic cruise missiles are few and far between, and most cruise missiles in fact fly roughly at the speed of an airliner (between 800 and 1000km/h).